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Topic: Video of William! (from WJF) (Read 19674 times)

You waited all for that, it has just come: The videos of william wei-liang lin, the winner of the wjf diabolo competition this year are here:http://www.thewjf.com/videos/william.htmlI haven't seen them but I' m delighted!

Wow, that little guy is really good. Do they breed special diabolo- children in the East or something? Just as they do with jugglers in Russia..

Yep, they're planted in special breeding grounds where they grow up eating with handsticks out of diabolo cups (ok, this exaggeration falls down abit as chinese style diabolos don't have "cups" persay).

But it's just a cultural thing. Like being good at football, or drinking. I'm not sure why, maybe they don't watch as much TV. Can't wait to watch the clips though, haven't seen anything of this fellow.

Wow, that little guy is really good. Do they breed special diabolo- children in the East or something? Just as they do with jugglers in Russia..

Yep, they're planted in special breeding grounds where they grow up eating with handsticks out of diabolo cups (ok, this exaggeration falls down abit as chinese style diabolos don't have "cups" persay).

But it's just a cultural thing. Like being good at football, or drinking. I'm not sure why, maybe they don't watch as much TV. Can't wait to watch the clips though, haven't seen anything of this fellow.

Chiok(unfortunately born in London)

My friend is taught Chinese yo-yo at Chinese School. It seems like it's very much a part of their culture.

I like the look of his 3d shuffle (Yabe's is still better). the 2d really looks awesome and the 1d looks amazing for non-diabolists..But if you try to do this jump-moves, you'll recognize that it isn't that easy as it seems...

Yeah, well, I guess that's what you get when non diaboloists put up videos of diabolo. Sure, being able to do six jump rope jumps under a diabolo is pretty cool, but it won't be what experienced diaboloists are looking for... Oh well.

Alright, so those videos really didn't do him justice. But i assure you, he rocks. Maybe his tech skills arent what you expected, but they are better than that, and he makes up for it with unbelievable energy and style. I just really hope you get to see his WJF routine. Come to think of it now, there was A LOT of new stuff, but it was so so tight, just wait and see...

William is from mainland China, isn't he? It's nice to see the Chinese whoop the Japanese, for no other reason than Japan's dominance.

I'll believe that there are more stormy tricks that he's capable of. The fact that he looks very comfortable with 3 and readjusting his shuffle belies that. He also got the Yabe Armstall in there at the end too. Someone send this kid a camera and a firewire card. Why did he even turn up to a convention on the other side of the world? [1]

Chiok[1] - the answer's gonna be he lives in the US and I'm gonna feel stupid...